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Leonard Baskin

Monumental Woodcuts

The Hanged Man 1955

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The Hanged Man 1955

67.5×21.5 in

Woodcut

1955

The image of the hanged figure showed up again and again over the years. It was an ambiguous symbol for Baskin, something unnatural but evoking divergent reactions. Was this justice for a criminal? A suicide? Or a innocent victim? In the 1950s when Baskin’s first hanged figures were created, the image of a lynched victim would not have been unfamiliar and its use would have overt political connotations. He continued to use the image throughout his career.

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